LYCEUM GROUP CLUB OF GREEK WOMEN - Co-founder and Owner of the Museum
The LYCEUM GROUP CLUB OF GREEK WOMEN OF SYROS was founded in 1915 and is the first regional high school after the establishment of the Central High School of Athens (1911) Up until now, the presence of the Club in the cultural presence of Syros has been and continues to be extremely significant.
It follows the path set by its founder, Kallirroi Parr, which includes the protection of Greek women, mothers, and children, as well as the preservation and dissemination of our national traditions, customs, and morals. Generous benefactors donated their private homes, appreciating their work as well as the social and cultural contribution to Hermoupolis - Syros
Today, the headquarters hosting the activities of the Lyceum Group Club of Greek Women of Syros are housed in the privately owned neoclassical building on G. Souris Street, donated by the late Evangelos & Mariogkas Petritzis.
Pavlos Chatzigrigoriou - Director & Scientific Coordinator
Dr. Pavlos Chatzigrigoriou is a Civil Engineer with a Masters in Architecture (Conservation and Restoration), a Masters in Environmental Urban Design and a PhD in Architecture (Digital Cultural Heritage).
In 2005 he initiated the digital documentation of the designed conservation plan of the historic buildings of Hermoupolis, a project that after gaining the interest of the National Technical University of Athens became a Doctoral Research and won the "Best Paper Award" at a landmark international conference, the DIGITAL HERITAGE Conference (IIIE), with 450 participants. In 2015 his research won the most important Cultural Heritage Award of the European Union, the "Europa Nostra Award" among 269 proposals. HERMeS is now part of the "Best Practices for Strategy 2021" established by the Council of Europe and currently extended to many historic cities.
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Pavlos Chatzigrigoriou attended as an invited speaker among others indide the "Cultural Forum" (guest of the European Commission), "Best inHeritage" (Dubrovnic, Croatia), "Best practices in public administration" (Luxembourg), "Digital Heritage" (main speaker, 2017), "Strategy 2021" and others. He additionally became a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cyprus University of Technology, inside the prestigious Digital Heritage Research Laboratory (UNESCO Chair on "Digital Heritage").
He is currently a researcher at the University of the Aegean, at the Interactive Systems Design Lab, focused on the creative and innovative utilization of digital cultural heritage for educational purposes, as well as the methodology regarding the connection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage with digital tools. He is a member of the jury of the European Culture Awards - Europa Nostra as well as a Chairman of the Selection Committee of the Awards in the category "Citizen Participation and Awareness". He is the manager and co-founder of the non-profit organization "HERMeS NGO" for the digital management of cultural development.
